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Explore the remarkable evolution of audio technology from 1877 to 1916. This timeline highlights pivotal moments including Thomas Edison’s recovery of "Mary's Little Lamb" on tinfoil in 1877, the patenting of the flat disc gramophone by Emile Berliner in 1887, Marconi's wireless telegraphy breakthroughs in 1901, and Lee DeForest's invention of the triode vacuum tube in 1906. Discover how these innovations paved the way for live broadcasts, improved radio reception, and the formation of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers.
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By: Aaron Daniel The Evolution of Audio Timeline
1877 • Thomas Alva Edison was working in his lab and succeeded in recovering Mary's Little Lamb from a strip of tinfoil wrapped around a spinning cylinder.
1878 • The first music is put on record, Jules Levy plays "Yankee Doodle."
1887 • Emile Berliner is granted a patent on a flat disc gramophone, from making the production of multiple copies practical.
1888 Introduces a electric motor driven phonograph.
1895 • Marconi successfully experiments with his wireless telegraphy system in Italy, leading to the first transatlantic signals from Poldhu, Cornwall, UK to St. John's, Newfoundland in 1901.
1900 • Poulsen unveils his invention to the public at the Paris Exposition.
1906 • Lee DeForest invents the triode vacuum tube, the first electronic signal amplifier.
1910 • Enrico Caruso is heard in the first live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera, NYC
1912 • Major Edwin F. Armstrong is issued a patent for a regenerative circuit, making radio reception practical.
1916A patent for the superheterodyne circuit is issued to Armstrong. The Society of Motion Picture Engineers (SMPE) is formed. Edison does live-versus-recorded demonstrations in Carnegie Hall, NYC.